Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

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This collection of Vonnegutas letters is the autobiography he never wrote a from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: aDonat let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my lifea. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: aI am an American fadaof a slightly higher order than the hula hoopa. Like Vonnegutas books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.... whose attacks on the Warren Commission Reporta#39;s finding that Lee Harvey
Oswald alone was John F. Kennedya#39;s assassin were among the political critiques
that made him controversial. Dear Boba How can I not be touched and flattered
by your continued interest in my work? ... August 17, 1988 New York City TO
JACK NICHOLSON Dear Mr. Nicholsona A very tough and funny movie script
has beenanbsp;...

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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Random House - 2012-10-30

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